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Why Ukraine Must Not Join NATO

Ain Stærlingsson🎄
My Ukraine
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6 min readFeb 26, 2025
That vote — note those abstaining in yellow, coerced by USA or Russia, half of the states in Latin America who voted green, also Slovakia and Serbia (scandals for both). Note the African states who also voted green and would not be swayed, nor Jordan or Egypt in the Middle East, who technically are strong allies of USA, with Egypt friendly to Russia also. In the Pacific Samoa stand out in green, well done, as well as Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea, four great rugby nations by some coincidence. Well done to most of South East Asia.

Again, we find ourselves on the cusp of something or another. In the past 3 years Ukraine has been held to the hilt, twirled on the sharp edge of clifftops and held dangerously close to the heat of a new fire more times than could be listed here: in April 2022, we inside Ukraine were so hopeful that the west would close the skies, when the scale of crimes against humanity was discovered in Bucha, near Kyiv. The Russian horde rolled in Bucha on 27th February, the 3rd day of the invasion, and were forced to retreat on 31st March. They had time, plenty time to do whatever they wanted, and what they wanted to do may have already been thrown onto a stack of papers labled war crimes in history, and kept in place by a metaphorical paperweight. But that was in 2022, which is basically now, in this post-Soviet world, where governments snooze and voters seek entitlement in ever greater measures, candidly named democracy for those hard of hearing.

500 victims have been named. They include children under the age of 18. Girls aged 14 were killed also, if you read reports on places like Wikipedia. What some of these reports do not say is how they died: repeatedly raped in front of their parets, fathers murdered sometimes for trying to intervene, and the girls, after abused by many soldiers finally dispatched of.

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My Ukraine
My Ukraine

Published in My Ukraine

Stories on Ukraine, a land of sunflowers and sorrow, tears and toughness.

Ain Stærlingsson🎄
Ain Stærlingsson🎄

Written by Ain Stærlingsson🎄

---A forestbather in UA🌳currently writing "Love and Loss in Ukraine" based on the war🌳member of <forestbathers unit> support them @forestbather via Revolut🌳

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Not sure I agree that this doesn't apply to project work. We run about 20 software development projects in parallel a week. There is no possible way we could do this by "taking orders" for features. We start every engagement by understanding the…

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I am going to sound a bit negative, but I read a lot of these types of articles, and after 30 years of working in Software it never fails to amaze me that these generalized, "rational", "pragmatic" solutions still get spoken off as the great panacea.

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Hi, Ryan Dawson,it's my great honor to read your article Too Much Product Roadmap May Kill You — Here’s a Better Strategy. Can i translate it into Chinese so that more people can read it ?
I will attach the original author and the original link. thank you !

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